The defense industry lost the ability to make weapons when crisis hit. The same pattern is eroding software engineering skills. The timelines are identical.
Watching the US build infrastructure projects is pain. A large part of the problem is the US as a whole is unwilling to stop themselves from reinventing the wheel. If a company, municipality, another department, other coworker, etc has completed a similar project or has been doing something similar for decades they will refuse to incorporate and learn some of those techniques. Instead they build everything from scratch.
Watching the US build infrastructure projects is pain. A large part of the problem is the US as a whole is unwilling to stop themselves from reinventing the wheel. If a company, municipality, another department, other coworker, etc has completed a similar project or has been doing something similar for decades they will refuse to incorporate and learn some of those techniques. Instead they build everything from scratch.